COVID-19 could reverse decades of progress toward eliminating preventable child deaths, agencies warn
NEW YORK/ GENEVA, 9 September 2020 – The number of global under-five deaths dropped to its lowest point on record in 2019 – down to 5.2 million from 12.5 million in 1990, according to new mortality estimates released by UNICEF, the World Health Organization (WHO), the Population Division of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social…